Tommy Amaker, Head Coach, Harvard University

Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise formally introduced Tommy Amaker as the head coach of men's basketball at Harvard April 13, 2007. He begins his fourth season at the helm in 2010-11.

Amaker, who brings a 220-182 career head coaching record into his fourth season at Harvard, posted a 109-83 ledger at Michigan and a 68-55 record at Seton Hall.

Amaker, who won two NCAA championships and advanced to five Final Fours as an assistant at Duke before embarking on a successful head coaching career at Seton Hall and Michigan, has been quick to adapt to his new surroundings as a member of the nation's most prestigious university.

"I've been fortunate to have been associated with some tremendous institutions, but none are greater than Harvard," said Amaker the day he was formally introduced as Harvard's new head coach. "I'm incredibly proud of this opportunity to represent the school, and I'm looking forward to the challenges ahead and to creating some special moments for Harvard basketball."

"We're delighted Tommy Amaker is joining us at Harvard," said Scalise. "He has been a well-respected head coach at the highest level of college basketball, and his experience as a player and assistant at Duke, where athletic and academic success is paramount, makes him a terrific fit. We look forward to the continued support of the Harvard and local communities as we pursue our first Ivy League championship in men's basketball."

That support, along with Amaker's already notable reputation as a people's person, helped the Crimson land some of the country's top student-athletes in his first few years on the recruiting trails.

During the 2009-10 campaign, Amaker guided the Crimson to one of the finest years in program history, as Harvard posted a 21-8 record, reaching a new high in victories in a season.  In addition, the Crimson went 10-4 in Ancient Eight contests and earned a non-conference victory at Boston College for the second straight season.  Following the regular season, the Crimson garnered a spot at the CollegeInsider.com Tournament, marking the first postseason appearance for Harvard since the 1945-46 season when the team advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

Amaker's 2008-09 recruiting class was quickly tabbed as one of the nation's 25 best by ESPN - an accolade never before bestowed upon an Ivy League institution. Amaker's seven-person recruiting class features numerous premier high school names from seven different states.

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Jim Boeheim, Head Coach, Syracuse University

Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim has had a remarkable 34-year run as head coach at his alma mater, Syracuse University. Boeheim has guided only winning teams in his tenure and has pushed the Orange into the postseason in all but one of his years. SU has made 27 trips into the NCAA Tournament, including Final Four appearances in 1987, 1996 and 2003, and the NCAA championship in 2003.

He coached the 2009-10 Syracuse squad to a 30-5 mark, the BIG EAST Conference regular-season championship and the third round of the NCAA Tournament. He added to his NCAA Division I record for 20-win seasons by posting his 32^nd.

Boeheim wrapped up his most recent season as head coach on the Hill with a 829-293 (.739) overall record. He ranked second among active Division I coaches in wins and sixth overall at the end of the campaign. He was honored with a number of coach of the year awards, including those presented by the Associated Press, Naismith Award, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA).

Boeheim achieved the ultimate basketball tribute in 2005 when he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was honored again during the postseason, receiving the John R. Wooden “Legends of Coaching” Award in April. That spring he and Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun were the “Spirit of Jimmy V” honorees at the annual V Foundation Gala.

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Mike Jarvis, Head Coach, Florida Atlantic University

Mike Jarvis enters his 22nd season as a Division I men's basketball head coach in 2009-10 and his third as coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls. A proven educator, leader and coach, Jarvis' appointment at FAU was announced at a press conference in FAU's Tom Oxley Athletic Center on May 27, 2008.

Jarvis' accomplishments place him among the nation's elite college basketball coaches, having led three different programs into the NCAA Tournament during stops at Boston University (1985-90), George Washington University (1990-98) and St. John's University (1998-04).

Whether winning state titles during his high school coaching days in Massachusetts or taking St. John's to within one game of the Final Four in 1999, Jarvis has consistently delivered postseason tournament appearances, league titles and championships wherever he has been.

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Tom Izzo, Head Coach, Michigan State University

Having recently completed his 15th year directing the Spartan program, head coach Tom Izzo has compiled an impressive list of accomplishments, including the 2000 NCAA National Championship, six regular-season Big Ten Championships, two Big Ten Tournament titles, six Final Four appearances, four National Coach of the Year awards and a Big Ten-best 13 straight NCAA Tournament appearances.

These accomplishments, however, are not what make Izzo one of the best in the game, but rather it is his insatiable desire to accomplish more.

With a career record of 364-146, it's easy to see that Izzo knows how to win, but he also knows how to win the right way. In his 14 full years directing the Spartan program, 84 percent of his players who completed their eligibility also left with a degree. In the last 10 years, 31 Spartans have received their undergraduate degrees, including five each in 2001, 2003 and 2007.

In 15 seasons, Izzo has returned Michigan State to national prominence, placed his name in the NCAA record books and become a leader among college basketball coaches. Izzo's 364 wins are the fourth most by any coach in his first 15 seasons in the history of college basketball. In late November 2009, he passed his mentor Jud Heathcote (340 wins) to become MSU's all-time winningest coach. In the NCAA Tournament, Izzo is at his best, winning at a clip of .745 to rank third among all active coaches with at least 10 tournament games coached.

Izzo has led MSU to six Final Four appearances in the last 12 seasons, becoming the only team to accomplish that feat between 1999 and 2010 and just the fourth school in college basketball history to do it in any 12-year span, including just the third since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Izzo also became just the second coach in NCAA history to reach four Final Fours in his first 10 years of coaching, joining Ohio State's Fred Taylor, and is just the third coach in NCAA history to appear in six Final Fours in a 12-year span, and just the second since the tournament expanded to 64 teams. His six Final Four appearances rank tied for fifth all-time, third among active coaches and first all-time among Big Ten coaches, having most recently passed former Indiana head coach Bob Knight.

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Gene Keady, Retired, Purdue University
Special Assistant/Advisor, St. John's University

One of the most respected coaches in the history of college basketball, Gene Keady, who spent 27 seasons at the helm of the Purdue and Western Kentucky programs and won 550 NCAA Division I games - with more than 800 career wins at all levels - joins the Red Storm as Special Assistant/Advisor to the Head Coach.

Though Keady's role will not involve any on-court coaching, his keen eye and feel for the game will aid the St. John's coaching staff in terms of developing strategy, analyzing game film, planning practices, and contributing at staff meetings. With experience at the collegiate level and in the professional ranks as an assistant coach with the NBA's Toronto Raptors, Keady brings literally decades of perspective to the Red Storm bench.

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Mike Krzyzewski, Head Coach, Duke University

Winning seasons, superb graduation rates for his players and a basketball team that is as close as family are all attributes that reflect on the man who is now in his 31st year as the head coach of the Blue Devils, Mike Krzyzewski.

Although some still stumble with pronouncing and spelling his name, when people speak of the highest level of success in the college basketball world, the name Krzyzewski (Sha-shef-skee) immediately comes to mind.

In 30 years at Duke, Krzyzewski, a Hall of Fame coach and 12-time National Coach of the Year, has built a dynasty that few programs in the history of the game can match.

Entering the 2010-11 season, Coach K owns an 868-279 record in 35 years of coaching, including a 795-220 mark in 30 seasons in Durham. He is 35 wins shy of becoming the winningest coach in Division I men’s college basketball history.

Krzyzewski’s record as Duke’s all-time winningest coach offers evidence of his success, but even more impressive are the four national championships. The fourth title came last season with a 61-59 win over Butler in Indianapolis while he also led Duke to the championship in 2001 and to back-to-back titles in 1991 and 1992, making him one of only two coaches since UCLA’s John Wooden with such an accomplishment. In 2005-06, Krzyzewski passed Wooden to move into first on the chart of coaches who have led their respective schools to a No. 1 national ranking. Coach K has now led Duke to the top spot in the AP poll in 14 seasons, including nine of the last 13 years.

He and the Blue Devils have been a fixture on the national basketball scene with 15 consecutive NCAA Tournament berths from 1996-2010 and 26 in the past 27 years. Overall, he has taken his program to postseason play in 27 of his 30 years at Duke and is the winningest active coach in NCAA Tournament play with a stunning 77-22 record for a .778 winning percentage. On March 20, 2005, Krzyzewski surpassed Dean Smith’s career tournament win total of 65 with a 63-55 triumph over Mississippi State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

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Oliver Purnell, Head Coach, DePaul University

Oliver Purnell was named the 13th head coach in DePaul basketball history on April 6, 2010 and brings a tradition of building programs to Lincoln Park. Overall, he has served as head coach for 22 seasons including the previous seven years at Clemson before arriving in Lincoln Park.

Purnell inherited a Clemson program in 2003 following stints at Dayton, Old Dominion and Radford. After a 10-18 record during his first campaign in 2003-04, he led the Tigers to six straight postseason appearances including each of the last three NCAA Tournaments. Clemson was just one of 21 programs nationally, including BIG EAST members Louisville, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Villanova and West Virginia, to make three straight NCAA appearances.

In his last four seasons with the Tigers, Purnell's .694 winning percentage is third in the ACC with only Mike Krzyzewski of Duke and North Carolina's Roy Williams posting higher winning percentages in that span. The 2009-10 squad finished at 21-11 with the program's third straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Clemson also finished the season with 301 steals in 32 games to rank among the nation's best for the sixth straight year. Purnell compiled a record of 138-88 (.613) during his seven-year tenure at Clemson while the program improved its winning percentage in five straight seasons from 2004-09.

Following the 2009-10 season, senior forward Trevor Booker was selected by the Washington Wizards in the first round of the NBA Draft. Booker was the 23rd overall selection in June 2010 and was the first senior selected in the draft. The first first-round pick from Clemson since 1994, he completed his degree from Clemson in August 2010. Booker concluded his career third in Clemson history with 1,060 rebounds and fifth on the career charts with 1,725 points. He played and started all 134 games of his career, a Clemson record. He also earned USBWA All-District III honors twice and was a first team All-ACC and All-Defensive Team as a senior - a first in school history.

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Bill Self, Head Coach, University of Kansas

Through seven seasons at Kansas, Bill Self is 202-43 (.824 percent). Overall, Self has coached 17 seasons with a 409-148 (.734 percent) record.

In Self's seven seasons as head coach at KU he has won one national championship, six straight regular-season Big 12 titles and four league tournament championships. In his first trip to the Final Four in 2008, Self's team won the title. He was named just the eighth head coach in Kansas basketball history on April 21, 2003.

Self has guided his teams to 12-straight 20-win seasons and 13 overall. Self has won 10 league crowns in the last 12 years. The other two seasons resulted in runner-up conference finishes.

The 2008 Winged Foot Award recipient for winning the national title, Self is a four-time finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award (2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), and Sporting News named him National Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2009. In addition, Self is one of four coaches in NCAA Division I history to have led three different teams - Tulsa, Illinois and Kansas - to the NCAA Elite Eight.

In 2009-10, Kansas entered the year ranked No. 1 in the national polls and held that ranking for all but three polls throughout the season. In the RPI's highest-rated conference in the nation, Kansas won its sixth-straight Big 12 regular-season title by three games with a 15-1 record. KU entered the 2010 NCAA Tournament as the overall No. 1 seed and posted 30 victories for the third time in the last four seasons.

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Tubby Smith, Head Coach, University of Minnesota

On March 23, 2007, Tubby Smith was announced as the 16th head basketball coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers Men’s Basketball program. One of the most respected coaches in the country and a national champion was coming to Gold Country to lead the Gopher program.

The excitement of bringing one of the top coaches in the country to the University of Minnesota was only matched by the satisfaction of welcoming one of the classiest individuals in the world of college basketball today to the Maroon and Gold. Tubby Smith has now been on campus for just over two years, but he has already put a huge stamp on the Golden Gopher basketball progam.

Coach Smith's second season on the sidelines of Williams Arena will be remembered as the season the Gophers made it back to the dance, as Minnesota made its 11th overall NCAA Tournament appearance and its first since 2005.

Minnesota began the 2008-09 season by hosting the NABC Classic at historic Williams Arena, part of Smith's duties as acting President of the NABC. Three wins in the classic were followed by nine more, as the Gophers sprinted to a 12-0 non-conference record, the fifth-best start in program history. The team went on to win nine games during the Big Ten Conference schedule, added an opening round victory in the conference tournament and was awarded a 12 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Gophers were defeated in the opening round of the tournament, but an overall record of 22-11 meant that Smith had led the University of Minnesota basketball team to consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in school history. Also, it was just the ninth time in school history that the program reached the 20-win plateau. Smith's two-year Minnesota record sits at 42-25 (.627), while his career record moves to 429-170 (.716).

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Roy Williams, Head Coach, University of North Carolina

When the Tar Heels cut down the nets in Detroit after winning the 2009 NCAA championship, they put an exclamation point on the most successful five-year stretch in the history of North Carolina Basketball -- two national titles ... three Final Fours ... four Final Eights ... four NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds ... five Top 10 Associated Press final rankings (four in the Top 4) ... four Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season titles ... two ACC Tournament crowns ... four 30-win seasons ... eight NBA first-round draft picks.

The man at the center of it all is Roy Williams, a 1972 UNC graduate and member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Tar Heels beat Michigan State, 89-72, to capture UNC's fifth NCAA Tournament title and second in the last five years. In 2005, Carolina beat Illinois to win Williams' first national title. He is one of 13 coaches to win multiple national championships, joining an illustrious list that includes only two other ACC coaches - Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski.

Over the last eight years, Williams has won 239 games, including 30 in the NCAA Tournament, and led Kansas and UNC to the Final Four five times. That's more wins, more NCAA Tournament victories and more Final Fours than any coach in the nation. He also coached National Players of the Year in four of the eight seasons.

The Sporting News and Lindy's named the Asheville, N.C., native the Coach of the Decade for 2000-2009. Williams led the Jayhawks and Tar Heels to 33 NCAA Tournament wins in the 2000s, eight more than any other coach (Tom Izzo was second with 25).

His teams' winning percentage in the NCAA Tournament in the last 10 years was .805. No other coach whose teams played in at least 10 NCAA Tournament games won at least 80 percent of them.

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Bob Knight, Retired, Texas Tech University

The career leader among NCAA Division I coaches with 902 victories over 42 seasons, Bob Knight’s teams mirrored their coach, playing with discipline, toughness, precision and focus. He was a member of Coach Fred Taylor’s NCAA championship team in 1960 and went on to become the nation’s youngest Division I head coach, taking over at Army in 1965 at the age of 24.

After six seasons, he left for Indiana University in 1971 and remained there until 2000, leading the Hoosiers to NCAA championships in 1976, 1981 and 1987. His 1976 team finished the season with a perfect 32-0 record. IU won 11 Big Ten titles and Knight was a four-time National Coach of the Year and a five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year.

Knight retired in 2008 in his eighth season at Texas Tech, turning the Red Raiders over to his son, Pat. At the 1984 Olympic Games, Knight became one of only three coaches to win the triple crown with an NCAA title, a NIT title, and an Olympic Gold Medal. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.

Dean Smith, Retired, University of North Carolina

The head coach at the University of North Carolina for 36 seasons, Dean Smith was a member of the Inaugural Class of 2006 inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He retired in 1997 with 879 career wins, the best mark in Division I coaching history at the time, but was later surpassed by Bob Knight’s 902 career victories.

Smith Tar Heel teams won almost 78% of their games, with NCAA championships in 1982 and 1993 and 11 Final Four® appearances. UNC won 13 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles, 17 ACC regular season championships and the NIT title in 1971. He completed the triple crown for coaching championships when he guided the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Games. Smith was selected as the ACC Coach of the Year nine times and the National Coach of the Year four times.

Along with his tradition of coaching winning teams, Smith was known as an innovator, creating the “tired signal” for a player to signify when he needed to come out of a game; huddling at the foul line before a free throw; and a number of defensive sets, including the point zone, the run-and-jump, and double-teaming the screen-and-roll. Smith’s teams were also known for the “four-corner offense”, a strategy for stalling and slowing down te game, especially late in a game.

Smith’s basketball roots began in Kansas, where he played on a NCAA championship team under legendary Jayhawks’ coach Phog Allen. At UNC, Smith’s players had a 96.6% graduation rate and he coached 25 NBA first round draft selections. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame.

John Thompson, Retired, Georgetown University

One of the most imposing figures ever to roam the sideline in college basketball, John Thompson was the first African-American coach to win a national collegiate championship when his Georgetown Hoyas captured the 1984 NCAA championship.

Thompson, inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999, coached the Hoyas to 596 wins, including five Big East regular season titles and six Big East tournament championships. Three of those teams reached the NCAA Final Four®, including the 1984 NCAA championship. He was named National Coach of the Year three times and Big East Coach of the Year three times. Thompson’s players were also successful off the court as 75 of 77players who remained for four seasons earned degrees.

The 6-10 Thompson was an All-America player at Providence College and played with the NBA’s Boston Celtics from 1964-66. He has remained active as a radio sports commentator and analyst, including working on NCAA Final Four® broadcasts.

Jim Haney, Executive Director
NABC and NABC Foundation

Jim Haney assumed duties as the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ executive director in June, 1992.

As executive director of the NABC, Haney has overseen the move of the association's headquarters from Branford, Conn., to Overland Park, Kansas. In July, 2004, Haney moved the NABC's national headquarters to downtown Kansas City, Mo., to realize his vision of creating an interactive fan venue to celebrate the game of men’s college basketball. In the fall of 2007, the NABC opened its state-of-the-art experiential facility, the College Basketball Experience, which is also home to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Both are located adjacent to the Sprint Center arena. In 2006, the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inducted its Inaugural Class, including Dr. James Naismith, John Wooden, Dean Smith, Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell.

Haney created the NABC Congress for each division of NCAA Basketball to work more effectively with the NCAA. He also initiated the NABC’s venture into basketball events with the formation of preseason basketball tournaments - the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic and the College Basketball Experience (CBE) Classic, with its championship rounds at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.

Part of Haney's vision to further the growth and visibility of the NABC was adopting the national awareness and education program "Guardians of the Game." The goal of the program is to focus attention on the positive aspects of the game of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of their players through advocacy, leadership, service and education. During his leadership, the NABC formed its partnership with the American Cancer Society that launched the widely successful Coaches vs. Cancer program to champion awareness, education and prevention. In 2001, Haney oversaw the development of the One Nation, One People, One Flag initiative which has been adopted nationally from high school programs on up to all levels of college basketball.

He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Board of Directors for USA Basketball.

Haney is only the fourth full-time executive director in the history of the NABC, following Clifford Wells (1960-73), William L. Wall (1973-75) and Joseph R. Vancisin (1975-92). Prior to accepting his current position, Haney spent four years as commissioner of the Big West Conference. His college basketball portfolio includes more than 31 years of experience starting as a student-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shortly after graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1971, Haney joined the University of Oregon coaching staff as an assistant under his former Penn coach, Dick Harter. Haney later succeeded Harter and coached the Ducks’ basketball team for five years, beginning with the 1978-79 season.

After leaving Oregon in 1983, Haney accepted a position with Larry Brown's coaching staff at the University of Kansas, but before the tip-off of the season, he moved on to start his athletic administrative career as assistant commissioner of the Metro Conference. In 1985, Haney began a three-year term as commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference before heading to the Big West Conference in 1988.